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I found interesting a recent NPR podcast with James Morone, author of The Heart of Power. The interview is framed as a positive discussion on the need for national health care. But without hearing the  orgasmic pleasure in their voices over the idea of government control; looking only at sections of the transcript one would [...]

I keep seeing quotes like this:
“Inside, the audience included a small group of New Haven, Conn., firefighters, including Frank Ricci, whose reverse discrimination claim was rejected by Sotomayor’s appeals court panel. The Supreme Court subsequently reversed that panel’s ruling.”
Discrimination is treating someone as inferior over something like race or gender. Reverse means to turn around [...]

My wife thinks Ann Coulter goes a bit far on her rhetoric when talking about abortion so I’ll add that warning… but I think this is an absolutely classic illustration of liberal absurdity.   Read her article 49 Million to Five or here’s the recap of the important parts. My paraphrasing in italics and square [...]

I’ve lightly abridged this article from (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10153)
[In his first 100 days Obama's] made a running start toward transforming the federal government’s role in the economy and — if such a thing is even possible — further expanding the president’s role in American life.
On the bright side, though, at least this president has a sense of [...]

Stimulus Package: 1 Trillion Dollars
New Taxes: 1 Trillion Dollars
Net Gain: zero
What do you call taking a trillion dollars from some and giving a trillion to others? Redistribution of wealth.
Federal Deficit as of today: 10.8 Trillion
Stimulus Package: another Trillion in a single year
Payment through new taxes: a trillion over TEN years
Barack Obama claims he’s cutting [...]

If you are anything like me, you may have been gravely mistaken in your understanding of oppression and child abuse. Let me clarify for you:
Oppression is teaching your child about God, teaching morals and absolute standards. Child abuse is not respecting your childs autonomous authority to do as he pleases. It is not giving your [...]

My wife and I began reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn since we ourselves are living in Brooklyn. The book is an account of a life in poverty at the turn of the century. I began thinking - how would this account differ if written today? Well, here is how it might go:
Francie was a [...]

I would like everyone to take the following challenge.
Go to the US Post Office to ship an overnight package. Don’t bring a box, just show up and ask the person at the counter for a box and ask some questions about the shipment. Now go to FedEx and do the same thing.
Now ask yourself if [...]

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they [...]

Comrade, let me welcome you to the United Socialist States of America. It’s been a long voyage, you may not realize you’d left, but you have most certainly arrived.
In the USSA, we care about the peasant class, the poor, the workers. So much so that we are carefully tending to new ways of creating more [...]